The Art of BioHacking or How to make Cheese and Wine, HEAD, Geneva
18 - 22. February, 2013 - Dataclub / Option Interaction / HEAD / Geneva
Contents
Overview
Mentor
Dr. Marc Dusseiller
Interests: Daphnia-Hacking, Euglena burgers, BioElectronics, low-cost diagnostics, building DIWO community bio-labs
Short Bio: Dr. Marc R. Dusseiller is a transdisciplinary scholar, lecturer for micro- and nanotechnology, cultural facilitator and artist. He works in an integral way to combine science, art and education. He performs DIY (do-it-yourself) workshops in lo-fi electronics, hardware hacking, microscopy, music and robotics. He was co-organizing Dock18, Room for Mediacultures, diy* festival (Zürich, Switzerland), KIBLIX 2011 (Maribor, Slovenia), workshops for artists, schools and children as the former president (2008-12) of the Swiss Mechatronic Art Society, SGMK. Currently, he is developing means to perform bio- and nanotechnology research and dissemination, Hackteria | Open Source Biological Art, in a DIY fashion in kitchens, ateliers and in developing countries.
Location
Dataclub / Option Interaction HEAD, Geneva général-dufour 2
Schedule
Working times: 9h30-12h30 / 14h-17h
Day 0 - Monday
- individual preparations
- browse through the hackteria website and the hackteria wiki, get inspired, confused, enlightened, curious.
Preparatory compulsary readings:
- "THE ART OF FREE AND OPEN SCIENCE", MCD#68 THE OPEN FUTURE see more info here and available for download in English and French
- Synthetic Ecology: Frequntly used terms, a comic book by the (Art)Science BLR team for IGEM 2010.
- New Art/Science Affinities free for download. Please read through it briefly and select one article/project that inspires you and present it during the introduction round with a few sentences, what it is and why it inspired you.
Day 1 - Tuesday
Morning
- Introduction, Hackteria | Open Source Biological Art
- personal introduction, Dr. Marc Dusseiller
- short group introductions
Afternoon
Setting up the lab
- un-boxing workshop | A BioHacker's Lab-in-a-Box
Guest Skype Lecture: Dr. Špela Petrič (SI), on "Genes, DNA, SNP mutations and the future of the human species"
Day 2 - Wednesday
Morning
- DNA extraction experiments
- Shopping aux marché aux puces
- Shopping food and other stuff
Afternoon
- finish setting up the DIWO BioHackArt lab
Cooking things
- Agar is the Media!
- let's start cooking...
Day 3 - Thursday
Morning
Seeing things
- let's build a few DIY microscopes
- Macro photography
Afternoon
Growing things
- BioPrinting
- Making Wine
16h: group discussions: sections from New Art/Science Affinities
17h: Guest Lecture: Dr. Sachiko Hirosue (CH/JP) and biodesign.cc, on "Art/Science collaborations, BioArt, BioEthics and BioDesign for the real world"
Day 4 - Friday
Morning
The Art of Documentation
- BioPrinting
- Making Wine
- DIWO BioArtHack lab
Afternoon
- Documenting process based work.
- Media: Video, Photo, Drawings & Sketches, Instructions, Comics,
Killing things
tba: Guest Skype Lecture: Andy Gracie (UK/ES), short CV on Hackteria, more info soon...
- Wrap up and discussions
Further Links and Readings
put stuff here
Participants
Minhee
- network culture
- communication
- page 61
Vincent
- Light & Sound -> Installation
- Data
- page 11
- page 136
Sharon
- cubes
- video, 3D
- page 89
- page 99
- lol
Alan
- IT
- Installations, digital arts & sculpture
- amateur science
- optical physical phenomena
- teaching
Hervé
- art before computers
- virtual painter
- teaching
Dimitri
- electronics / programming
- machine drawing (+)
- 3D printing
- pages 24 - 26 (Marius Watz)
Blackboard Notes
The Art of Documentation
Strawberry DNA exctraction recipe ♥ :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOpu4iN5Bh4
Home Experiment: banana DNA extraction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlzERP3KGZ0
Art Science Bangalore
Fruit Fermentation Video Tutorial, IB:SC
Kapitän Biopunk - Intelligent Bacteria ; Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
KAPITÄN BIOPUNK: FERMENTATION MADNESS at EDIBLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0m6RDDYiR0
MOIST SENSE | Installation - Mix Media | LIFEPATCH.ORG 2012